Hazel Isobel (Hunkins) Hallinan (1890 - 1982)

Born 6 Jun 1890 in Aspen, Pitkin, Colorado, USA

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Died 17 May 1982 at age 91 in London, England

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Hazel was born on 6 June 1890 in Aspen, Pitkin, Colorado, USA. She was the daughter of Ensign Lewis Hunkins and Anna Whitingham.^[1]

When Hazel was 29 she married Charles T Hallinan on 30 May 1920. The couple had 4 children: Living Hallinan, Living Hallinan, Living Hallinan and Living Hallinan.^[1]

Hazel died at the age of 91 on 17 May 1982 in London, England.^[1]

Hazel was buried on 28 May 1982 in Mountview Cemetery, Yellowstone County, MT.

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Biographical History
Hazel Hunkins Hallinan (1890-1971) was an American journalist and activist for women's suffrage and women's rights in both the United States and England. She was a member of the group that chained themselves to the White House gates in 1916.
Pickets in Front of the White House
July, 1917: Left to right: Miss Hazel Hunkins Hallinan, Mrs. John Winters Brannan, and Miss Anne Martin
Mountview Cemetery
Billings, Yellowstone County, MT
HALLINAN CHARLES THOMAS Jun 15, 1972
HALLINAN HAZEL HUNKINS May 28, 1982

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Ensign Lewis Hunkins married Anna Whitingham on 28 October 1885. The couple had one child: Hazel Isobel Hunkins.^[1]

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1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Death: Title: Ray Towne notes NOTERay Towne notes, Ray Towne notes. Note H00552fought with Alice Paul for Womans rights. chained herself to the White House Fence and spent 6 days in jail in1916. BIOGRAPHY. Hazel Hunkins-Hallinan was born on June 6, 1890, in Aspen, Colorado. She was the daughter of Anna Isabel (Whittingham) and Ensign Lewis Hunkins, a jeweler. According to Hunkins-Hallinan, her mother Anna (1867-1945), the daughter of John and Olive (Gunn) Whittingham, married Ensign (1840-1907), the son of Ensign Sergeant and Sally (Rowell) Hunkins, after he agreed to finance her education. They were married soon after she graduated on October 28, 1885. The family moved from Aspen to Denver before settling in Billings, Mont., in 1903, where Hunkins-Hallinan graduated from high school in 1908. Hunkins-Hallinan attended Mount Ida School in Newton, Mass. for a year of college preparatory classes before attending Vassar College (A.B. 1913). She worked towards her master's degree at the University of Missouri while teaching in the chemistry department before returning to Billings to be near her ailing mother. Denied the opportunity to teach chemistry and physics because she was a woman, Hunkins-Hallinan was inspired to join the National Woman's Party after hearing Anna Louise Rowe speak. She worked as an organizer in Montana, California, Utah, and New York. Many of Hunkins-Hallinan's suffrage activities were centered in Washington, D.C., where she was a prominent figure in the picket lines in front of the White House. In 1917, she left her paid position with the National Woman's Party to work for the National War Labor Board as a researcher and occasional union investigator. She continued to participate in pickets, which led to her being arrested and sentenced to the Occoquan Workhouse where she and other suffragists participated in a hunger strike. In 1920, Hunkins-Hallinan moved to London, England. She was joined a few months later by Charles Thomas Hallinan, a journalist. Charles, the son of Carrie (Crampton) and Timothy Hallinan, was born on October 22, 1880, in Lansing, Michigan. He attended Dartmouth College but was unable to finish due to financial difficulties. On April 27, 1907, he married Josephine Redfield (1868-1948); they had one daughter, Frances (b. 1907). They were divorced in April of 1921, following the development of a romantic relationship between Hunkins-Hallinan and Charles. Charles and Hunkins-Hallinan were married on January 20, 1930, and had four children: Nancy (b. 1921), Joyce (b. 1922), Timothy (b. 1924), and Mark (b. 1931). Beginning in 1920, Hunkins-Hallinan worked as a freelance journalist, notably writing a column under the pseudonym Ann Whittingham for the Chicago Tribune about English society with a focus on Americans in England. In 1942, Hunkins-Hallinan was evacuated to the United States for the remainder of World War II. Between 1942 and 1945, she worked for a number of government offices, including the Foreign Economics Administration. In 1956, she formed Belsize Park Properties, Ltd., a rental company that owned and managed an apartment building located at 15 Belsize Park, London. Hunkins-Hallinan was the author of a children's book, The Story of America (1942), and the editor of In Her Own Right (1968), a collection of feminist essays. Hunkins-Hallinan was an active member and served terms as secretary and president of the Six Point Group, a British feminist organization. She was involved in several other clubs and organizations, including the Americans for Democratic Action, the Anglo-American Families Association, and the Vassar Club of London. Charles died on December 2, 1971. Hunkins-Hallinan died in London on May 17, 1982, of respiratory failure. Women’s words on toilets. Men have always got so many “good reasons” for keeping their privileges. If we had left it to the men “toilets” would have been the greatest obstacle to human progress. “Toilets” was always the reason women couldn’t become engineers, or pilots, or even members of parliament. They didn’t have women’s toilets. (Hazel Hunkins Hallinan, 1983 Source: The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women). Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party. Item Title. Miss Hazel Hunkins of Montana on the picket line. Author/Creator. Photographer: Press Bureau, Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, Washington, D.C. Created/Published. [ca. 1917]. Notes. Summary: Informal portrait, head and chest, face turned slightly to left in partial profile, Hazel Hunkins-Hallinan, picketing outside in front of suffrage banner (partially obscured banner reading "Mr. President How Long Must Women Wait for Liberty?"), wearing fur-collared coat, short-brimmed hat with cloth trim, and tricolor suffrage sash across chest. Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from image. Hazel Hunkins of Billings, Mont., was a graduate of Vassar College and later a professor of chemistry at the University of Missouri. She joined the suffrage movement as an organizer for the NWP and was active in all picket campaigns. She was sentenced to 15 days in jail for participation in a Lafayette Square meeting at which NWP activists were arrested as they spoke. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 362. Yellowstone Valley Woman. PO Box 23204. Billings, MT 59104. Hazel Hunkins-Halinan. Fight For Your Rights. Just years before women earned the right to vote with the 19th amendment, one Billings woman could be regularly found with other “Silent Sentinels” on White House patrol. Hazel Hunkins-Hallinan stood with other suffragettes for 18-months straight with banners and picket signs in hand. An image of this dainty woman can even be found in the Library of Congress. The photo taken in 1917 shows Hazel with a slight smile on her face holding a sign that reads, “Mr. President, How long must women wait for liberty?”. “Hazel represents a national figure who was willing to risk going to prison to fight for the rights of all women,” Kooistra-Manning says. Surprisingly, Hallinan’s story is one few have heard before. Historians believe the fire inside was lit when Hazel was refused the opportunity to teach chemistry and physics simply because she was a woman. Not long after, leaders of the National Women’s Party paid a visit to Billings and urged her to join in their efforts. In1916, they named her Montana State Chairman of the National Woman’s Party. She rose the ranks rather quickly. If you look at interviews with some of her fellow suffragettes, Hazel Hunkins-Hallinan was never afraid of a challenge. Fellow party member Mabel Vernon says,” I think of Hazel lighting the fire in front of the White House and scaling the Lafayette monument.” In the next breath, Vernon called this Billings girl, “congenial.”. In pieces of Hazel’s oral history taken in 1975, you see the spunk in her own words. She talked about the early days throwing leaflets out of a diving plane over the San Francisco Bay. “It was one of those very small planes with nothing under you, just the air,” she relayed. “I was to throw out leaflets holding the Democratic Party responsible for holding up in Congress the suffrage amendment and urging people to defeat Woodrow Wilson.” There are other stories she shares of foiled attempts to light the White House lawn on fire. “We were always trying to get publicity,” Hazel admitted. On August 18, 1920, women earned the right to vote. Instead of basking in the glory, Hazel Hunkins-Hallinan moved to England and started a new chapter of her life. “She went on to become a well known journalist and columnist, says Professor Hart. “That’s pretty amazing to come out of what was, at that time, a sleepy little town.”. Women of History - H. Hallinan, Hazel Hunkins - (1890 - 1982). American women’s activist. Hazel Hunkins was born in Billings, Montana, and studied chemistry at Vassar College. She was married and bore several children. Mrs Hallinan was refused employment in the chemical industry because of her sex and she joined the female suffrage movement (1917), being arrested for chaining herself to the gates of the White House. She later resided in England where she wrote the newspaper column London Letter for the Chicago Tribune (1920). Hazel Hallinan published the collection of feminist essays entitled In Her Own Right. Mrs Hallinan was the guest of honour at the White House (1977) when President Jimmy Carter signed the Women’s Equality Day proclamation. Hazel Hallinan died (May 17, 1982) aged ninety-one, in London.Women of History - H. Archives in London and the M25 area. Hazel Hunkins-Hallinan (1890-1982) was born in Colorado, in the United States, and brought up in Montana. She was well educated and became a chemist, but found her career both as an academic and as a practising chemist thwarted by discrimination because of her gender. Through a friendship with Anna Louise Rowe, Hunkins-Hallinan became a member of the American National Woman's Party (NWP) and an active campaigner for women's suffrage in America - in 1917 going to jail for her role as a protester. After meeting Charles Thomas Hallinan, a pacifist, she travelled to England and lived with Hallinan in London, having four children before they married at the end of the 1920s. In 1922 she joined the Six Point Group in which she became an active member, and the Married Women's Association. She also worked with the Abortion Law Reform Association from the end of the 1960s. Hallinan died at the age of 91 in London, she was buried in Montana with her parents and her husband. (accessed before 29 May 2011)

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